“I’m sitting here working on the writing right now,” he says. DAVIS MAINTAINS COMPLETE CONTROL OVER GARFIELD'S FINAL PRODUCT, BUT HE NO LONGER DRAWS THE DAILY COMIC STRIP. It gives me a lot more latitude for the humor for the situations.” The farm that Davis grew up on reportedly had 25 cats, several of which he based the Garfield character on. By virtue of being a cat, really, he’s not really male or female or any particular race or nationality, young or old. “Dealing with eating and sleeping, being a cat, Garfield is very universal. “I would like for readers in Sydney, Australia to think that Garfield lives next door,” Davis says. GARFIELD IS SET IN DAVIS'S HOMETOWN OF MUNCIE, INDIANA, BUT THAT'S ALSO MOSTLY LEFT UNSAID. (Sounds like a dead-ringer for William Howard Taft!) 4. Now just imagine a fat, wisecracking, lasagna-eating cat as the President of the United States of America. GARFIELD WAS NAMED AFTER DAVIS'S GRANDFATHER, JAMES A. So I thought I would give Jon a job right off the top to avoid being asked what he does for a living in interviews.” 3. Nobody ever knew because he was always in the house with Harriet and Ricky and David. Also, I purposely gave him a job right off the top for the reason that The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet never explained what Ozzie did for a living. I didn’t want to lose the readers just for my own enjoyment, or for a handful of peers. "That it would be a little too easy for me to write. “I didn’t want to tread on the fact that Jon’s a cartoonist because my biggest fear was getting a little too inside," Davis says. JON WAS A CARTOONIST IN THE VERY FIRST COMIC STRIP, BUT IT WAS NEVER REALLY MENTIONED AGAIN. said, 'Well, what does that tell you, Jim?'" he laughs. Ryan-the cartoonist for Tumbleweeds-and I showed it to him and told him how every time I got to the punch line the cat zings him. It was about him, but he had this wise cat who, every time, came back zinging him. “I ran some early ideas at a local paper,” Jim Davis tells Mental Floss, “to see how I felt about it and I called the strip Jon.
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